Once described as the 'longest & most charming love-letter in literature' the Virginia Woolf's Orlando" is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction & notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in " Penguin Classics". Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West " Orlando" is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure immortal & ageless who changes sex & identity on a whim. First masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles & modes of history " Orlando" is also in Woolf's own words a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity & capriciousness. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from " Mrs Dalloway" (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel " The Waves" (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive " Orlando" (1928) & "A Room of One's Own" (1929) a passionate feminist essay. If you enjoyed " Orlando" you might like Woolf's " The Waves" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "I read this book & believed it was a hallucinogenic interactive biography of my own life & future". (Tilda Swinton)." ...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD & MARGARET REYNOLDS. As his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close he will have transformed into a modern thirty-six-year-old woman & three centuries will have passed. Orlando will witness the making of history from its edge dressing in the flamboyant fashions of each day following passing customs & socialising with celebrated artists & writers. Orlando's journey will also be an internal one
- he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart & a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf's most unusual & fantastic creation Orlando is a funny exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
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This is a brand new series of five of Woolf's major works in beautifully designed hardback editions. Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend the charismatic bisexual writers Vita Sackville-West Orlando" is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex & identity at will. First masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles & modes of history " Orlando" is also in Woolf's own words a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity & capriciousness." ...

The ultimate Orlando pocket city map! Explore Florida's playground Orlando with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street map of Orlando as well as Downtown Disney Disney World Epcot Centre & Universal Studios * Additional maps show Disney's Animal Kingdom & Sea World * Handy self-folding tourist map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city & parks in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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This is the first book about Orlando the famous marmalade cat. He & Grace his beautiful tabby wife have three kittens
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Aphra Behn the poet playwright novelist & political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection edited & introduced by Professor Janet Todd demonstrates the full sophistication & vitality of Aphra Behns genius. It contains the plays The Rover" & " The Widow" " Ranter" (the first English play to be set in the American colonies) together with " Love Letters to a Gentleman" a choice of poems & two short novels
- " The Fair Jilt" & " Oroonoko"
- which are among the most innovative prose writings of the seventeenth century."

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Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy plucked from nowhere to be trained as a tunnel assassin a kidnapper a spy. He has no father but the State no sweetheart but Sun Moon the greatest opera star who ever lived whose face is tattooed on his chest. Imagine he lives in our very own country a model of exemplary Communism. A nation that is the envy of the world especially the Americans. Where the only stories people need to hear are those blasting out of loudspeakers to the glory of our dear Leader Kim Jong il. Dry your eyes now comrades! Prepare to hear the Greatest North Korean Love Story Ever Told. THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON is an iconoclastic work of fiction part thriller part coming-of-age story part love story. Dark playful & genre-defying its searing depiction of one mans epic journey through the surrealist brutality of North Korea shines a fierce light on the essence of the human condition. ...

I've told you before & I will tell you again if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished." The teacher's face was a mask of anger. " Understand?" Born in 1975 in the UK to a Pakistani father & an English mother Alexander Khan spent his early years as a Muslim in the north of Engl&. But at the age of three his family was torn apart when his father took him to Pakistan. Despite his desperate cries that was the last he saw of his mother
- he was told she had walked out & abandoned them; many years later he learned she was told he'd died in a car crash in Pakistan. Three years on Alex is brought back to England but kept hidden at all times. His father disappears to Pakistan again leaving Alex in the care of a stepmother & her cruel brother. & it is then that his troubles really begin. Seen as an outsider by both the white kids & the Pakistani kids Alex is lost & alone. When his father dies unexpectedly Alex is sent back to Pakistan to stay with his 'family' & learn to behave like a 'good Muslim'. Now alone in a strange hostile country with nobody to protect him Alex realises what it is to be truly orphaned. No one would listen. No one would help. & no one cared when he was kidnapped by men from his own family & sent to a fundamentalist Madrassa on the Afghanistan border. A fascinating & compelling account of young boy caught between two cultures this book tells the true story of a child desperately searching for his place in the world; the tale of a boy lost & alone trying to find a way to repair a life shattered by the shocking event he witnessed through a crack in the door of a house in an isolated village in Pakistan."
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The team of code-crackers face a new code that has never been solved. Brodie Hunter & Tusia are back at Station X the secret code-cracking station at Bletchley Park. & they are still wrestling with the great unanswered question: what secret lies behind the ancient coded Voynich Manuscript? Their first adventure left them with a musical box that plays a tune by the composer Elgar. Elgar loved codes. At once they are off on a new search which takes them to the stories behind Elgars famous music & a coded letter he wrote to a young friend Dorabella. The Dorabella Cipher has never ever been solved. Now our team of code-breakers are on a twisting trail via medieval book burnings in Florence a mysterious boy known as the Orphan of the Flames & a one-time famous prisoner in Londons Newgate Prison who wrote about King Arthur. Where is it all leading? & will they survive when hot on their trail is a secret organisation that has always thwarted the search for Truth & is prepared to kill to stop them.. . The second story in this highly original puzzle-solving series
- a Da Vinci Code for kids. The reader races along with the Secret Breakers team to break the code.. . Enter the world of the Secret Breakers at http://hldennis. com/
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Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity but the prize in an intergalactic power struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet while Earth merely observes rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earths ambassador to Darien will become a player in a greater conflict as there is more at stake than a turf war on a newly discovered world. An ancient temple hides access to a hyperspace prison housing the greatest threat sentient life has ever known. Millennia ago malignant intelligences were caged there following an apocalyptic struggle & their servants work on their release. Now a new war is coming. ...